Timeline for Zero G area on rotating wheel space station
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| May 29, 2019 at 6:41 | comment | added | Blade Wraith | @Ryan_L, not necessarily, if you had a station that has a 50 metre trunk, think an hourglass shape, that does not rotate, and then rotating areas are strapped to the central thinnest part then you have plenty of zero-g area available to you on each end, if you had mutilple different rotating rings, spinning in opposite directions that should keep the trunk from spinning by itself | |
| May 29, 2019 at 5:53 | comment | added | Cadence | @Ryan_L That's true. You'll have to arrive at a level that's "close enough" - is 1% gravity enough? 0.1%? - and then you can determine how far away from the axis you'll feel that amount of force. The bigger and slower the ring, the larger an area will feel microgravity and the more gradual the gradient of force will be across it. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 5:10 | comment | added | Ryan_L | The problem with this is that the area within the hub that's truly zero-G is infinitesimally small. | |
| May 29, 2019 at 5:06 | history | answered | Cadence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |